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It is said that the ontology of data resists slowness and also that the digital revolution promised a levelling of the playing field. Both theories are examined in this timely collection of chapters looking at time in the digital world. Since data has assumed such a paramount place in the modern neoliberal world, contemporary concepts of time have undergone radical transformation. By critically assessing the emerging initiatives of slowing down in the digital age, this book investigates the role of the digital in ultimately reinforcing neo-liberal temporalities. It shows that both "speed-up" and "slow down" imperatives often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism. Problematic paradoxes emerge where a successful slow down and digital detox ultimately are only successful if the individual returns to the world as a more productive, labouring neoliberal subject. Is there another way? The chapters in this collection, broken up into three parts, ask that question.
Transcending Reason
The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics argue that Heidegger’s philosophy effectively severs the tie between reason and normativity, leaving anyone who adheres to his position without recourse to justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger’s approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume points to Heidegger’s novel approach to reason understood in terms of what he calls Dasein’s ‘transcendence’—the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this new and innovative take on Heidegger’s philosophy, this collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.
The Graduate Student Guidebook
Graduate school is an important and confusing time, filled with many questions about the inner-workings of academia and decisions students must make about their futures. The Graduate Student Guidebook: From Orientation to Tenure Track offers an overview of this experience, featuring expert advice on the many different steps and challenges encountered in master’s and doctoral programs. In the current academic climate, initial decisions—like choosing an advisor—critically shape future opportunities. Students need a consistent, reliable, and up-to-date resource. In this authoritative guide, faculty from various universities, positions, and backgrounds offer sage advice, responding to concerns identified by graduate student members themselves. Moving through the text, readers learn about the transition from undergrad to graduate-level expectations, special considerations for students of marginalized groups, graduate assistantships, the importance of key decisions, comprehensive exams, writing the thesis or dissertation, publishing, conferences, navigating the job search, and making a career in a tenure track position.
A Map Is Only One Story
Published in time for the fifth anniversary of Catapult's award-winning daily web magazine, A Map Is Only One Story marks the first edition of a series of anthologies collecting important writing from Catapult magazine Writers in this collection are based in cities across the United States, including El Paso, TX; Orem, UT; Los Angeles, CA; Boston, MA; Bloomington, IN; Charleston, SC; and beyond Since 2015, Catapult's daily online magazine has been a publication dedicated to a diverse and talented community of writers, both emerging and established. Founded by Yuka Igarashi and Mensah Demary, and now led by editor in chief Nicole Chung ( All You Can Ever Know ), Catapult magazine writers have won major writing awards and been honored with multiple Pushcart Prizes and Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories selections. Writers, agents, publishers, and MFA programs alike recognize the quality and perspective implied by a Catapult byline, and more than a few writers have secured agents and book deals as a result of their publications in Catapult magazine This anthology is wide-ranging and deeply personal, featuring narratives that move the conversation around identity and belonging past the reductive black and white of partisan politics (especially welcome in the 2020 election cycle). A Map Is Only One Story offers twenty human faces, twenty human stories on what has become a hard-line and overly polarized topic Included in this collection are Nadia Owusu, 2019 Whiting Award winner; Jennifer S. Cheng, a multi-award-winning author whose collection, House A , was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; Victoria Blanco, finalist for the 2016 PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize; Jamila Osman, short-listed for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize; Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, producer of the Peabody Award–winning show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ; and many more A Map Is Only One Story includes a twelve-page, full-color comic by Shing Yin Khor (https://shingkhor.com/comic), and examples are available in our sales materials now Contributors are located in the following areas: Austin, TX: Natalia Sylvester Brooklyn, NY: Nadia Owusu, Niina Pollari, Nur Nasreen Ibrahim Charleston, SC: Cinelle Barnes Chicago, IL: Nina Coomes Gaithersburg, MD: Nicole Chung Los Angeles, CA: Soraya Membreno Minneapolis, MN: Victoria Blanco Portland, OR: Jamila Osman Salt Lake, UT: Kenechi Uzor San Francisco, CA: KJennifer S. Cheng San Leandro, CA: Lauren Alwan Springfield, NJ: Krystal A. Sital Los Angeles, CA: Shing Yin Khor CANADA: Steph Wong Ken (Calgary, Alberta), Sharine Taylor (Pickering, Ontario) PORTUGAL: Deepti Kapoor (Lisboa) Bookseller Praise for A Map Is Only One Story " A Map Is Only One Story is an anthology that perfectly encapsulates what Catapult creates on their online platform—diverse voices telling complicated, beautiful stories. These stories on immigration are so important for our time, and each story is as engaging and original as the last." —Liesel Hamilton, Old Town Books (Alexandria, VA)
The Story Prize
The first-ever anthology honoring the prestigious Story Prize, published in time for the award's fifteenth anniversary and featuring a remarkable list of winners including Anthony Doerr, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Elizabeth McCracken, Adam Johnson, and Rick Bass Much more than just a collection of previously published stories, The Story Prize Anthology features interviews with winning writers, judges' citations, and an introduction from the prize's director and the anthology's editor about the history and culture surrounding the prize Independent booksellers are an important community within The Story Prize, as annual judges often include a bookseller (or librarian), and booksellers from Elliott Bay, Books & Books, Prairie Lights, and McNally Jackson sit on the current Story Prize board of directors There is a great deal of goodwill and camaraderie surrounding The Story Prize; many preeminent literary influencers, writers, critics, and journalists have taken their turn as judges over the years. Other high-profile board members of The Story Prize include members of the media, NBCC critics, librarian Nancy Pearl, and beloved writers including Hannah Tinti, Tiphanie Yanique, and Rob Spillman. A smartly designed trade paperback original with French flaps The launch event for this book will be the prize's fifteenth anniversary celebration in March 2019, in New York, NY Anthology editor Larry Dark was previously the series editor of six editions of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , from 1997–2002. He lives in Montclair, NJ, and will be a loud, active champion for the anthology An excellent, affordable reader for classes studying short fiction and the most important names in contemporary American letters
Tiny Crimes
[b]Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers “An intriguing take on crime/noir writing, this collection of 40 very short stories by leading and emerging literary voices—Amelia Gray, Brian Evenson, Elizabeth Hand, Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Laura van den Berg and more—investigates crimes both real and imagined. Despite their diminutive size, these tales promise to pack a punch.” — Chicago Tribune , 1 of 25 Hot Books for Summer [/b] Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard-boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. With illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook and flash fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Amelia Gray, Adam Sternbergh, Yuri Herrera, Julia Elliott, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Evenson, Charles Yu, Laura van den Berg, and more, Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved.
Vox Populi
The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi , a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal. Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for American conservatism (George H. Nash), the essays expound broadly and deeply on populist unrest—the populist revolts of ancient Rome (Barry Strauss), the rise of popular referenda and the Brexit vote (Daniel Hannan), American populism and the legacy of H. L. Mencken (Fred Siegel), populism and the Founders’ generation (James Piereson), populism and identity (Roger Scruton), populism around the world (Andrew C. McCarthy), the birth of a new American populist movement (Victor Davis Hanson), and populism’s historical impact on the American party system (Conrad Black). The book concludes with a discussion of the struggle to keep government in the hands of a free people (Roger Kimball). Just what perils and promises are found in populist ferment may be the question of our age. Taken together, these ten essays consider “the voice of the people” in the light of history, in a collection that only The New Criterion could assemble.
Liberty's Nemesis
If there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obama’s presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state. Its expansion has followed a pattern: First, expand federal powers beyond their constitutional limits. Second, delegate those powers to agencies and away from elected politicians in Congress. Third, insulate civil servants from politics and accountability. Since its introduction in American life by Woodrow Wilson in the 20th Century, the administrative state’s has steadily undermined democratic self-government, reduced the sphere of individual liberty, and burdened the free market and economic growth.In Liberty’s Nemesis, Dean Reuter and John Yoo collect the brightest political minds in the country to expose this explosive, unchecked growth of power in government agencies ranging from health care to climate change, financial markets to immigration, and more. Many Americans have rightly shared the Founders’ fear of excessive lawmaking, but Liberty’s Nemesis is the first book to explain why the concentration of power in administrative agencies in particular is the greatest – and most overlooked – threat to our liberties today.If we fail to curb it, our constitutional republic might easily devolve into something akin to the statist governments of Europe. President Obama’s ongoing efforts to encourage just such a devolution, and the problems his administration faces as a consequence, present a critical opportunity to defend the original vision of the Constitution.